Elsa Aguirre Biography

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The actress Elsa Irma Aguirre Juárez was born September 25, 1930 in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico. She is one of the most outstanding figures of the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema and, curiously, it was her mother who supported her and gave her the courage necessary to enter the world of cinema. At age 14 she won a beauty contest organized by a production house called CLASA Films Mundiales, which was looking for new talents. She and her sister, Alma Rosa, were selected to participate in the film The Strong Sex (1945).

The following year Elsa and Alma Rosa participated again in the film El passenger ten thousand (1946). After that project, the sisters’ mother decided that they would retire from acting because of the gossip and nonsense that constantly appeared in the Mexican tabloid press, and that directly involved Elsa and Alma.

As a way to make Elsa reconsider her retirement, director Julio Bracho goes to her house to offer her the lead role in the film Don Simón de Lira (1946), alongside Joaquín Pardavé. The response, of course, was positive and Elsa returned to the spotlight. From then on she participated in many films such as Something Floats on the Water (1947), Eyes of Youth (1948), A Decent Woman (1950), The Statue of Carne (1951) and Acapulco (1951), among many others.

She was married three times, the first to Armando Rodríguez Morado, who beat and psychologically abused her, the second was to the filmmaker José Bolaños and the third to José Rafael Estrada, a yoga teacher.

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